It was not only a time of relative peace and economic growth‚ but also a phase of rebellion in the youth‚ which questioned the way of life and beliefs of their parents. It was a time filled with music‚ miniskirts‚ sexual freedom and drugs. At that time‚ Joyce Carol Oates created her works‚ in which she talked about ordinary everyday affairs‚ giving them a specific dark climate fueled by the second bottom. A short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" was written in such climate. Oates addressed
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Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring
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3 Major Economic Systems Economic Systems: There are 3 major mainstream economic systems‚ and they are: 1) Market economy 2) Mixed economy 3) Command economy. The distinction between them stems from their approach to answering the 3 basic economic questions: 1) What to produce? 2) How to produce it? 3) How to distribute it? ❖ Market economy: o All economic resources are owned by the people. o They decide how and where to channelize those resources. o The market forces of demand
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Charles Howard Schmid‚ Jr. also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson‚" was an American serial killer. In the story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to understand it. Such as‚ it could be a dream that Connie is having‚ in all actuality it could be real; it could send a message
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Economic System "Resources are scarce but demands are unlimited." (Anderton‚ 2000: 273) Therefore‚ resources have to be allocated in terms of what to produce‚ how to produce‚ and for whom to produce. (Case & Fair‚ 2004) Economic system is a way of answering the three basic economics problem. "An economic system is a collection of laws‚ institutions and‚ activities‚ that provide a framework for economic decision-making." (http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lesson2.htm) Each part of it interacts
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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your
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Economic System (Types‚ Advantages & Disadvantages) Economy: Economy is the wealth and resources of a country in terms of production and consumption of goods and services. Economic System: An economic system is a way in which a nation organizes‚ manages or controls the factors of production (resources) so that the wealth of the country is somehow distributed among its population. How these factors of production are controlled and distributed defines economic system. There are
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Place for the Wicked The real world chooses to hide the wickedness of mankind‚ while the world of fiction chooses to highlight it. In the stories “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ and “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ especially highlight the time the horrible aspects of man. Each one highlighting the corruption of man in their own unique way. The social hierarchy is a key part to the wickedness of
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to Find” and “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the protagonists are lured by their bad decisions leading to their demise; the victims’ bad decisions along with the criminals’ bad intentions led to death creating the plot of both stories. Although‚ the stories have the same plot‚ the characters differ tremendously. Connie‚ the
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